The Game Is Afoot: Ralph Jones’ poetic response to Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss

Following the New Year’s Day airing of the latest episode of BBC’s Sherlock, The Six Thatchers, the show wasn’t exactly without its detractors. One of those detractors was me: I wrote in The Guardianon Tuesday of my fear that the show, and indeed lead character played by Benedict Cumberbatch, had become too much like James Bond.

By way of retort, the following day writer and actor Mark Gatiss responded with a poem, To an undiscerning critic. As witty and erudite as Mycroft Holmes himself, Gatiss sent the piece into The Guardian’s Letters page.

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Ralph Jones is a staff writer for ShortList magazine. In April 2015 he won a seven-foot throne of dildos but he’d rather you didn’t mention it. He performs sketch comedy and is on Twitter at @OhHiRalphJones